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Ankündigung: Tiny Desk Kolloquium: Digital History & Humanities – Forschung, Lehre und Infrastrukturen im Dialog am 17. Juli 2025.

On 17 July 2025, the fourth edition of the NGHM Tiny Desk Colloquium will take place. Once again, young historians from the University of Osnabrück will have the opportunity to present and discuss outstanding theses as well as their projects in the field of Digital Humanities. The programme will be expanded with contributions from VirtUOS and the University Library.

With the TDK, the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research has chosen a format of short presentations and brief discussion rounds, with which six topics are presented once each semester in a manageable timeframe and brought into dialogue with each other and with the audience.

On 17 July, the TDK under the direction of Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass  offers insights into work on the Nazi “euthanasia” system and “Internally Displaced Persons”, which emerged from theses at the Historical Seminar, as well as into the work of SFB 1604. The programme is supplemented by contributions from VirtUOS and the University Library on AI in research and teaching as well as the technical possibilities at UOS.

All interested parties – and especially Osnabrück students – are cordially invited! Registration is not required.

4th Tiny Desk Colloquium: Digital Humanities
Thursday, 17 July 2025
2.00 to 5.00 pm
Room 15/130

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The first edition of the TDK was dedicated in 2023 to cooperation with the Museum and Park Kalkriese.  News from conflict landscape research and the collaboration between the university and the site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest were presented.

The second TDK event enabled exchange on perspectives in the context of the use of Virtual Reality and 3D models in research and teaching.

The third TDK offered a forum for young historians who presented their theses on Osnabrück regional history, and provided insights into third-party funded projects in which doctoral candidates at the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück are qualifying.

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4th Tiny Desk Colloquium of the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research, 17 July 2025, 2-5 pm, Room 15/130

Welcome and introduction: Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass

Fabian Tauer
Josef Valentin Anton Hohenstein: An Individual Fate in the Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ System

Anna Schlutter
The Production of the Category ‘Internally Displaced Persons’ and the Ambivalent Role of the United Nations

Alexander Piwowar (VirtUOS)
Teaching AI Competencies with Micro-modules

Dr. Marco Gronwald/ Kerstin Strotmann-Frehe (UB)
From Text to Data. FDM and DH Infrastructures at the UB

Dominic Sauerbrey (SFB 1604)
Corpus Linguistic Methods as Tools for the Identification and Analysis of Flight-related Figures

Ahmet Celikten/ Maik Hoops (SFB 1604)
Concepts of the Production of Migration. A Corpus Analysis of Academic Texts since the 1960s